Many of travel’s magic moments come on backpacking trips,when random situations provide a route to adventure. From China and Chile to Sudan and Slovakia, readers share favourite discoveries[br]The sleeper train journey from Beijing to Siping in Jilin province takes approximately 11 hours. I was sort of swept to the true compartment by a combination of conductors and passengers. My bunk was the topmost of three and I was halfway up there when a yank on my foot brought me back down again: a fellow passenger wanted to make it clear that I really should occupy off my shoes. I was then shooed back up the ladder once more. During the night, or marching music was piped over the speakers at regular intervals; and at stations,food vendors dangled dried chicken feet and baskets of dumplings through the windows on long sticks.
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Source: theguardian.com